Dame Heather Jane Williams, DBE, KC (born 1963),[1] also known as The Honourable Mrs Justice Heather Williams DBE, is a British High Court judge.
Williams was born in Portsmouth, England and attended King's College London, graduating with a first-class LLB degree in 1984.[1][2]
She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1985 and was in practice from 1987, specialising in civil liberties, judicial review and employment discrimination; she practised from and was deputy head of chambers of Doughty Street Chambers.[3] She appeared before the inquests into the Hillsborough disaster and was successful in Miriam O'Reilly's age discrimination case against the BBC.[3] Williams took silk in 2006, was a part-time judge for the Employment Tribunals from 2005 until 2018, and served as a recorder and a deputy High Court judge from 2018.[1][4][2]
On 1 October 2021, Williams was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[5][4] She received the customary damehood in the same year.[1]
On 1 January 2023, she became President of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)[6]
In 1997, she married Trevor Bragg and together they have a son and a daughter.[1]
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